List of John Keegan Quotes

Hitler ... Lacked The [inclination] For Anything More Than The Occasional Sensational Display Of Emotion, In Particular The Great Set-piece Speech Which Mesmerized The Mob And Left Him Drained Of ... Energy.

Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military Virtues.

I Think Americans Like The Practical; They Like The Human. And I Like Both Those Things Myself, And I Try And Put Them Into My Books.

Nobody Should Teach Anywhere For 25 Years, But I Did.

I Can't Visualize The Situation In Which We Nuke Ourselves Into Extinction.

Visually Agincourt Is A Pre-raphaelite, Perhaps Better A Medici Gallery Print Battle - A Composition Of Strong Verticals And Horizontals And A Conflict Of Rich Dark Reds And Lincoln Greens Against Fishscale Greys And Arctic Blues.

If Wellington Epitomizes The English Gentleman, Eisenhower Epitomizes The Natural American Gentleman.

Some People Are More Terrorist Than Others

It's Commonly Said That People Who've Been Ill In Childhood And Who've Had An Upset Education Never Really Regret That They Do. It Means That You Don't Look At The World In The Way That Other People Do, And If You Were Inclined To Be A Writer, That's A Help.

We Forget Today That Britain Still Depends For Its Livelihood And, Indeed, Its Day-to-day Survival, On The Sea. But The Royal Navy Is Now Pitifully Small And Has Been Reduced In Size By The Current Government, Seeking Economies To Finance Its Social Programmes. Fine While There Is No Threat To Our Security. But What Use Would Schools And Hospitals Be If We Could Not Protect Our Imports?

I Think To Be Shot In A Mountain Valley Somewhere Or Other Is Altogether Less Glorious Than Crashing An Airliner Into A Skyscraper.

We Saw The Children And The Women With Their Babies And Then I Heard The Poouff — The Flame Had Broken Through The Thatched Roof And There Was A Yellow- Brown Smoke Column Going Up Into The Air. It Didn't Hit Me All That Much Then, But When I Think Of It Now — I Slaughtered Those People. I Murdered Them.